LEADER 04894nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910820813303321 005 20240515221005.0 010 $a979-88-908773-7-6 010 $a0-8078-6165-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447681 035 $a(OCoLC)56356650 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10064763 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000159081 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161026 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159081 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150205 035 $a(PQKB)11177499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039451 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10064763 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039451 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447681 100 $a20030415d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom the fallen tree $efrontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 /$fThomas Hallock 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8078-5491-3 311 $a0-8078-2820-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-283) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes -- Chronology -- Introduction: Closing the Wilderness, Opening the Frontier -- Meliorem Lapsa Locavit -- Ideas of Nature -- Notes -- Part I. The Western Text -- 1. The Imagined West: Lewis Evans -- A Path Taken Together: Lewis Evans and the Iroquois -- Lewis Evans and the Imagined West -- Thomas Pownall: Revising the Imagined West -- Conclusion: Natives, Nature, and Imperial Geography -- Notes -- 2. The Contested West: John Wilson's Kentucke -- Nature, Nation, and Natural History -- Daniel Boone and the Captive Environment -- Conclusion: ''Avail Yourselves of the Benefits of Nature'' -- Notes -- Part II. Improvement -- 3. Textual Boundaries, Discursive Control: Stories of the Land in the Susquehanna Valley -- ''Mammy Where Are We Going?'': The Limits of Frontier Prose in ''Susquehannah'' -- The ''Wyomen'' of Treaty Literature -- Notes -- 4. Jefferson's Nature and the Trans-Appalachian West: Notes on the State of Virginia -- Ideological Geography and the Disappearing West -- Jefferson, Logan, and the Vanishing Native -- Conclusion: ''Wherefore the Forgery?'' -- Notes -- Part III. Protégés -- 5. Collaboration, Incorporation, and Environmental Discourse: Lewis and Clark, Jane Colden -- Was That a Hoh-host or a Yâck-kâh? -- Fractures in an Imperial Narrative -- Collaboration, Incorporation, Triangulation -- Jane Colden and the Charleston Network -- Alexander Garden's Trip to the Cherokee Mountains -- Notes -- 6. On the Borders of a New World: William Bartram's Travels -- Four Ways of Looking at a Sinkhole: The Construction of a Literary Natural History -- Transformations, Personal and Political -- Four Views of the Alachua Savanna: The Ideological Work of Travels -- Notes -- Part IV. Settlement & -- Appropriation -- 7. Reversing the Revolution through Nature: Anne Grant, Timothy Dwight. 327 $aAnne Grant's Colonial Ecology -- Marking Change, Registering Loss: Timothy Dwight's Travels -- The Roots of a Pastoral -- Notes -- 8. Disappearance and Romance: Cooper's The Pioneers -- Nature, Nostalgia, and Native Americans -- Romancing the Contact Zone -- ''This, Then, Is Thy Indian Blood?'': Becoming Native to Place -- Nostalgia, Guilt, and Nation Building -- Notes -- Coda: Parallel Republics -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-L -- M-P -- R-Y. 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zUnited States$xHistoriography 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.)$xHistoriography 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life in literature 606 $aPastoral literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnvironmental literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xDescription and travel 607 $aUnited States$xHistoriography 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistoriography 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life$xHistoriography. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life$xHistoriography. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy$xHistory. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life in literature. 615 0$aPastoral literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnvironmental literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a973/.07/2 700 $aHallock$b Thomas$0595206 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820813303321 996 $aFrom the fallen tree$9993054 997 $aUNINA